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  • Tuesday, November 1, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – An Evening with James Wines

    The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts will present James Wines on Tuesday, November 1 from 6:30 – 8 at the Gund Hall Piper Auditorium in Cambridge. Free and open to the public. Speaker James Wines – born in Chicago, IL 1932 – is the founder and president of SITE, an environmental art and architecture organization, chartered in New York City in 1970. He is the former Chairman of Environmental Design at Parsons School of Design and a retired Professor of Architecture at Penn State University. His architecture, landscape, and public space projects are based on a site-specific response to surrounding contexts. Prof. Wines’ educational philosophy advocates ‘integrative thinking,’ as a means of including multi-disciplinary ideas from outside the design professions. He has written seven books on art and design, including ON SITE-ON ENERGY – Scribners & Sons 1974, DE-ARCHITECTURE – Rizzoli International 1987, and GREEN ARCHITECTURE – Taschen Verlag 2000. He has designed more than one hundred and fifty buildings, public spaces, exhibitions, landscapes, and environmental art works for private and municipal clients in eleven countries. He was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s 2013 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, the ANCE Annual Award for an International Architect (Italy 2011), and the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation (USA 1995). He is also the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kress Foundation, American Academy in Rome, Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Graham Foundation, and Ford Foundation. In 2021 there was a retrospective of his drawings for SITE at the Tchoban Museum in Berlin. Prof. Wines continues to work on international art and design projects, write, lecture, and engage in educational programs based on environmental initiatives.

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  • Tuesday, November 3, 6:30 – 7:30 pm – The Vertical Garden, From Nature to the City

    The Harvard University Graduate School of Design will sponsor a Margaret McCurry Lecture in the Design Arts on Tuesday, November 3, from 6:30 – 7:30 pm in the Piper Auditorium of the Graduate School of Design in Cambridge.  Patrick Blanc will speak on “The Vertical Garden, from Nature to the City, or how to bring biodiversity close to everybody’s life.”  For more information, email Brooke King at bking@gsd.harvard.edu, or log on to www.gsd.harvard.edu.

    The Vertical Garden, known as Le Mur Vegetal in French, was conceived after many observations in natural environments.  The Vertical Garden relies on a new way to grow plants without any soil.  Since its weight is very light, it is possible to set up the Vertical Garden on any wall, whatever its size.  The Vertical Garden can be implemented outdoors or indoors, in any climatic environment.  The plant species selection is mainly set according to the prevailing climatic conditions.  For an indoor location, an artificial lighting system is usually required.  Watering and fertilization are automated.  The Vertical Garden acts as a phonic and thermic isolation system.  It is also an air purification device.

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